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AM Frequency of the Week - 910 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you all get on 910 AM?
Here in Vermilion, OH, 910 AM daytime is WFDF/Farmington Hills, MI (Detroit) which is a Radio Disney affiliate that comes in with a fairly decent signal despite their signal being nulled in my direction. At night I can barely make them out amongst a number of other unidentified stations.
 
Here in Rochester NY, it used to be CKLY Lindsay ON, across the lake...but they went to FM a while back, and now it's a local highway TIS, except when it's some more "exotic" DX like WSBA.
 
Daytime from south FL, on a good radio, it's Radio Metropolitana in Havana, Cuba.

At night, RM likely dominates, and I don't attempt to flush anything else out. :)

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Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Day: Very weak WSUI (Iowa City)
Night: Mess. I've heard KLCN (Blytheville, AR) a few times just before sunset.
 
Last I heard, it was more right-wing political bab (KTRO). But that was several years ago; they have changed formats since then. Believe it's Hispanic talk now. All I ever hear on 910 these days is BPL/computer noise.

(crainbebo might know...)
 
Manassas, VA,

semi-weak WRNL sports talker from Richmond, VA on days. At night, usually a mess, but recently during one early morning before dawn, I heard what sounds like Caribbean/dance in Spanish on one 910 and another 910 playing what sounds like easy listening vocals not in English. No opportunity to ID either 910, perhaps the one cd637299 mentioned and one in Venezuela.
 
In Southwestern Ohio it's WPFB Radio in Middletown, Ohio at 910 A.M.

This station came on the air in 1947 and got the call-letters from its owner, Paul F. Braden. For many years, the station carried news and high school and college sports from Middletown and Butler County, Ohio. In January of 2011, it was purchased by Nothern Kentucky University and began rebroadcasting the signal of its station, WNKU.
 
910 is a particularly unlucky assignment; if there is a nearby unfortunate occurance of strong signals exactly 910 khz apart anywhere on the AM dial, the mixed product can end up on "your local" 910 if your radio has a 455 khz IF section.

The only really good way to dx 910 is with a radio that has a 262.5 khz IF.

Only one of my cars has this. :(

In Chicago and all the way along the shore into Michigan it's WGTO Cassopolis/Dowagiac MI.

Along the part of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago directly by the tallest buildings, the signal from WGTO seems about
10 db enhanced. It's truly an amazing spot, like losing 70 miles instantly.
 
In Dallas/Ft. Worth it's currently KATH, licensed to Frisco and 24-7 Guadelupe Radio Network with "KATHolic" programming. The call letters also remind me of the late lead guitarist from the band "Chicago", Terry Kath. That guy had chops!

Back in the day 910 was licensed to Sherman Tx as KIKM, they were a really decent small market top-40 that always had a great signal in to Dallas from 60 miles away.
 
From Tampa....

Daytime - WTWD Plant City with the Cuban in the background when the radio faces south.

Night - The Cuban when the radio faces south and WTWD when the radio faces east.
 
910 in Bothell/Bellevue is mostly nothing days, CKDQ Drumheller, AB (Q91, Country) sunset and at night CKDQ and KKSN Portland, OR (it's now a simulcast of 94/7 KNRK HD2, local bands). Sometines I can get KNEW Oakland, CA (News/Talk) and once I got KWDZ Salt Lake City, UT (Radio Disney)

-crainbebo
 
In SE Michigan, it's always been WFDF during the day. From the old site, I was often close to the null, and I would hear WAVL Apollo, PA close to sunset. At night, after WFDF 12:30 signoff before about 1980, it was usually KGLC Miami, OK, now KVIS. There was a mix of other stations, possibly WGBI Scranton, PA. Now, about sunset, WRNL Richmond, VA can often be heard. I have heard WJCW Johnson City, TN, WABI Bangor, ME, and WLTP Marietta, OH. I once heard WHSM Hayward, WI.

From the new 50000 watt site WFDF is one of the strongest skywaves in Northern Lower Michigan, during 50000 watt critical hours and even after the power reduction to 25000 watts. You hear WSUI Iowa City, IA sometimes, and WDOR Sturgeon Bay mixing during the noncritical hours. WFDF was a regular even with 5000 watts day and 1000 watts night in Northern Michigan, groundwave, critical hours skywave and nights.

The whistle is not present on 450 kHz IF radios as well as 262.5 kHz IF.
 
Local WTMZ day and night here, a sports station. 910 has one of the best 500 watt signals in the country. Can be heard to I-95 on I-26, and does well down the coast. Have heard it at night as far N as Asheville.

The 910 in Spartanburg is sometimes under WTMZ at night, especially inland the farther away you get from the transmitter.
 
In Durham, North Carolina, 910 is usually a very faint WRNL, Richmond, VA, in the daytime and critical hours, and at night, I've heard WOLI Spartanburg, SC. Interestingly enough, WOLI was simulcasting WRJD 1410 AM, the Durham station for which I used to work, briefly earlier this year and I could hear 910 in northern Durham clearer than WRJD (which has a deep null to the north/northwest). The simulcast fell apart back in April or May but WRJD still identifies both stations.
 
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